What is Patient Safety Culture?

What is Patient Safety Culture? A Review of the Literature

https://sigmapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1547-5069.2009.01330.x[1]

Abstract

Purpose:

To organize the properties of safety culture addressed by many studies and to develop a conceptual culture of safety model.

Design and Methods:

A comprehensive review of the culture of safety literature within the U.S. hospital setting. The review was a qualitative meta‐analysis from which we generated a conceptual culture of safety framework and developed a typology of the safety culture literature.

Findings:

Seven subcultures of patient safety culture were identified: (a) leadership, (b) teamwork, (c) evidence‐based, (d) communication, (e) learning, (f) just, and (g) patient‐centered.

Conclusions:

Safety culture is a complex phenomenon that is not clearly understood by hospital leaders, thus making it difficult to operationalize. We found senior leadership accountability key to an organization‐wide culture of safety.

Clinical Relevance:

Hospital leaders are increasingly pressured by federal, state, regulatory, and consumer groups to demonstrate an organizational safety culture that assures patients are safe from medical error. This article defines a safety culture framework that may support hospital leadership answer the question “what is a patient safety culture?”

OSHA BLOOD BOURN PATHOGEN STANDARDS

https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/regulations/standardnumber/1910/1910.1030[2]

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